7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. …
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year. In the wheel of nature (Jas. 3:6) sometimes one spoke is uppermost and by and by t…
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